FridayOL

Veteran Scottish journalist Kirsty Wark has hailed Newsnight as becoming “leaner and meaner” as she received a prestigious Bafta Fellowship, celebrating a remarkable career spanning three decades with the BBC programme. Wark, a familiar face to British television audiences, joined Newsnight in 1993 as a presenter and recently departed in 2024, leaving behind an enduring legacy of incisive interviews and fearless reporting.

The Bafta Fellowship is the highest honour the Academy can bestow, recognising an individual's outstanding contribution to television. Accepting the award, Wark reflected on the evolution of Newsnight, acknowledging the pressures and challenges faced by the programme over the years, but also celebrating its continued relevance in a rapidly changing media landscape.

“Newsnight has always been a programme that isn’t afraid to ask difficult questions,” Wark stated.